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CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 



PART VII 



"The American constitution is the 
most wonderful work ever struck off at 
a given time by the brain and purpose 
of man." — GL t dsto ,e. 

"It is the lirst successful attempt in 
the history of the world to lay the deep 
and broad foundation of a government 
for millions of people and an unlimited 
territory in a single written instrument, 
^framed and adopted in one great na- 
tional effort; but no amount of wisdom 
in a constitution can produce wise gov- 
ernment unless there is a suitable re- 
sponse in the spirit of the people.'' 1 — 
Ch'fJ. Miller, 



A STONE KINGDOM; 

OR, 

THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE 

OF 

PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY 

AND 

Progressive Republicanism. 



ONE IN ALL, AND ALL IN ONE. 

The undersigned citizens, of a Repub- 
lic built for the general Weal if con- 
trolled by the Good, or the general Woe 
if controlled by the Evil, and through 
Faith, hopefully so of another Govern 
ment, which also calls upon us to up- 
hold the First, and reject the Last, con- 
sidering that as freemen now. sover- 
eign in our proper spheres, we have in- 
dividually certain inalienable rights re- 
served within our parties, or sects, 
though perhaps a minority; and intend- 
ing as such freemen, while still faithful 
to our sound principles and their pure 
exponents, to follow each one his own 
conscience always: subject, however, in 
actions to enacted law, and to have that 
conscience dominated intelligent lv. as 



nearly as we can by our Heavenly Fa- 
ther, the Divine Spirit in every thing, 
especial ly our votes about all public 
problems like prohibition, the currency, 
free trade, suffrage, taxation, transport- 
ation the just wages of labor or capital, 
etc., etc., hereby unite to form a Work- 
men's League, and talk over the same, 
which shall be conducted under such 
officers and by-law^ or rules, as we may 
elect — not for debate or display, but as 
Truth seekers, led by that Spirit, to ad- 
vance His influence in all administra- 
tions of each commonwealth within the 
United States, and to enthrone Morality 
above Mammon in politics, with the 
grace of Jesus Christ, our Lord ; for 
God means Light, and God means Love; 
and God means Liberty for Man, and 
thus is here, ready to accept a Domin- 
ion, from generation to generation, 
when we are to be true subjects. 

2 Many philosophers have framed 
ideal republics, castles of heaven for 
earth, such as human genius, with the 
light of history then shining, mi«;ht 
dimly conceive; but here is a living or- 
ganism formed, partly from those 
ideals, though chiefly from Bible teach- 
ings, which, after a century of severe 
trial, proves the presence of God-in- 
man,i.e., His humanity and our divinity, 
where Mind kisses Matter for all eterni- 
ty. Still another bloody revolution, or a 
sublime reformation confronts our coun- 
try. Because where Satan now sits, with 
a wand of Gold corrupt as Hell to rally 
all the hosts of Night, the Divine Spirit 
of Liberty demands a ballot - box 
purged of his presence ; and beyond 
that, where his brazen importunity to 
vice, with its boundless, opportunities, 
has debauched every high official sta- 
tion, which freedom has allowed or man 
could have no merit, there too, Liberty 
demands a loftier flight of patriotism, 
phoenix-like, above corruptible clouds 
also, up snowy peaks even to where 
the White King sits, on H s Throne of 
Pure Thought, with a dual scep- 
tre to sway our masses in state as well 
as church organisms. But no man, or 
party, or sect alone can effect such a 
reform. It must be wrought by our 
voting people, if worthy son* of Deitv, 



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who must henceforth wear His name, 
both in their hearts and foreheads, so 
as to be clearly read by every public 
servant at least. For where the mass- 
es rule, and wield the rod of power 
supreme for life or death, like clouds 
raining a mixed river of pearly dews or 
poisened hail, the current of official 
virtue or of vice, cannot flow higher or 
sink lower than its source. Still any 
one may help the people moor our ship 
of state out of its slime into pure water, 
if by chance he tinds a crystal thread 
for guide. 

3 Heaven is wherever pure society 
exists. It is no spot, but a state 
locatable in every world and in every 
bosom where Truth reigns. As to us it 
is a mere matter of training, in an at- 
mosphere of clean mentality, under 
tuition of God's other Self, the Holy 
Ghost, ever brooding over man, and 
now in many Sons and Daughters of all 
nations, who compose the growing Bride. 
Hence, after twelve or more members of 
a club, in any township or ward, to 

be called the Bee Hive No , County 

of , State of , shall have 

enrolled, a meeting will be held to 
elect a President, Secretary and Treas- 
urer from its number, but no one shall 
vote or speak in its proceedings without 
first enrolling as a member. If money 
is collected or used to advance honora- 
bly our cause, the Treasurer whose 
books must be open to view bv all mem- 
bers, after giving and taking receipts 
for the same, shall make a full report 
at every meeting of each, expenditure, 
and what for ana to whom paid. The 
public shall be welcome at all meetings; 
as we shall have no secrets here except 
such as may "be found in the Bibles, and 
constitutions or laws of our country, 
the first being meant for the Soul of t he 
last to guide us to a reign of good will, 
charity, temperance, economy and 
puritv in ('very administration, city, 
county, state and federal, through the 
medium of our best type of men offered 
not by themselves, or their suggestion 
and desire for self exaltation, self en- 
richment and self glorification, but as 
called forth by public wants, the public 
interests and the public glory: the 



Fruits of an honest life grown on the 
Vine of Truth, and not creeds, being 
what we wish to elect by fair voting to 
all branches of authority 

4 We can do well with one-tenth of our 
talking talent; but the vacuum must be 
tilled with nine-tenths more of moral 
worth A man, who cannot tell a busi- 
ness body what he knows in ten min- 
utes, will tell it worse in ten hours. 
We mean business Our capitols have 
turned into conclaves to rob the people. 
We are forced to use the square and 
trowel to erect new ones, whose height, 
length and breadth shall be equal. 
The sky must be shaken, and present 
stars fall, even as a fig tree casts its 
tigs when swept by a cyclone; giving 
us a new atmosphere above from thun- 
derings below — among the people— out 
of the public heart —a new heaven to 
be built on a new earth. Wherefore any 
citizen, whether in a visible church or 
not, of either sex, or any party, may 
join this League, but no one shall ever 
be taxed or allowed to pay a cent of its 
expenses, if any there be, except he or 
she wills to do so freely Yet we want 
no temple here, as a warm heart is the 
brightest throne of Deity— richer far 
than gold or rubies; and every cottage 
may be a shrine The earth quakes for 
Progress as an egg is shaken by its grow- 
ing chick; but through the wreck of 
empires and shock of systems, our love 
of Truth and of the true can bind us 
to the Soul of Light, as one with every 
other orb that shall survive to roll in 
splendor round that Sun Our design 
is to make such societies a pleasant 
Lodge for the peaceful camping of all 
parties, both religious and political, 
that now are or hereafter may be. and 
to help each accomplish the good it 
seeks by sifting out the evil, and by 
building up educationally, pure thrones 
of public opinion, out of a divinely 
regenerated people, with our Mississip- 
pi valley for center of power as it is of 
population, and territory— like the Jor- 
don of an Israel restored. 

5 We dare not asoire toeradicate every 
tiaoe of wrong from all our bodies 
politic in a day or perhaps a century, 
still less from ourselves as human 



CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 



beings, but we do hope collective!} 7 , 
by a union of honest brains, to fetter 
soon and dethrone forever that beastly 
Spirit of Self-worship, dominant by the 
popular will through legislation over 
our incorporated lives hitherto — a 
Dragon of gluttonous Plutocracy, with 
many heads and horns materialized 
under various forms of crushing Mon- 
opolies — and to confine that Spirit in 
small minorities to a bottomless Pit by 
the same will of our freemen marshalled 
under the Holy Spirit of brotherly love, 
or in other words, Omnipotent Benevo- 
lence in human laws active through 
pure hearts with clear heads and clean 
hands casting snow-white ballots, to 
protect the Masses against the conspir- 
acy of Classes, whether in transporta- 
tion, news, manufactures, finance, com- 
merce or other rings. Under our Gov- 
ernmental forms, to wall up the lake of 
Hell Fire, so that the weak may live 
beside the strong now, we must open 
the flood gates of Heavenly Fire, by 
filling every political fabric with Spirit 
Life, Life in good men, i. e., represent- 
atively. Claiming the right to live by 
work when fairly done, as often 
on farms from sun to sun, we 
court such a rule of Love, by the peo- 
ple and for the people, in place of self; 
of national inspiration instead of nar- 
row sectionalism; of larger liberty in 
party codes in place of ostracism for 
free thought; temperance in place of 
intemperance, of legal order and a noble 
reform among men, but anarch v, or in- 
terference with the just rights of private 
property, real or personal violently or 
by expost facto acts no where; in short 
the reign of a truly united America, 
founded on the divine rock of real Free- 
dom for every voter, instead our besott- 
ed Babylon, with slavery to Capital for 
its cornerstone, or indeed any other 
form of serfdom. The Saloon imposes 
such a serfdom on its victims, but until 
conflicting views can be well digested, 
through calm discussions inspired by 
the love of Justice, into needful laws, 
we recommend abstinence as a good 
one for each member of our society; be- 
cause after a.l a man's heart is the best 
statute book, the fountain and end of 



Law, in any state which the Soul of our 
Father dominates; though aided bv 
Reason, Faith can speedily chain the 
Opposition on this or other fields of bat- 
tle, if uniting we organize for political 
work under One Head here, like branch- 
es of a single Vine, scions of the same 
Blood, or Bees of the same Hive 

6 And the same principle, of Moral 
obedience to the LJivine Spirit only, 
suggests that war chiefs be retired from 
civil idolatry in every Republic, as rep- 
resenting bloody feuds they cause alarms 
to Labor as well as Capital, which if 
rightly used subject to just laws are 
like the two hands of one body, equally 
essential to brilliant progress Our new 
era of real brotherhood between men 
and nations, to prevent further conflicts, 
summons the heroes of Peace to power 
— genius born in other iields than 
butchery or a forensic battle between 
sections, the fields of productive indus- 
try, that pour out bread, in place of 
blood for the millions — stars clad in 
white robes, with no speck of human 
gore, peace-makers instead of peace- 
breakers. We "oppose any union of 
church and state by a statutory or cori- 
stitudonal law as Blasphemy — the bar- 
barous rule of a sword over cons: en ce 
and matter over mind— a hell of despot- 
ism, because every creed like every 
man should have equal scope for 
growth; but we favor their wedding in 
the Holy Spirit of righteous judg- 
ments at all elections, on the part of a 
wise people in every free state, repeat- 
ed forever in thunclertones by the choice 
of God-like characters to each seat of 
secular power, both small and great, as 
the goal of history* and the perfection 
of civil government by human beings. 
The Kingdom above must be one of 
love, not force, based on the equal 
rights of citizens and their free support 
of it; and ours may be like that if we 
will — A shadow of the Jerusalem to 
come. In fact the Spirit of our Father 
in human forms beine God, may be 
able to guide us to all Truth, of science 
or art essential on this earth to save 
nations, as well as souls, individual 
atoms, or unions composed of them 
form i no- federated States -if we will 



CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 



only labor with Him to that end, faith- 
fully; for which Jesus, the Christ, died, 
yet lives as our lirst born brother and 
ever faithful child of Deity, lifting 
man with Him to His Sky. If this be 
so, the age of Inspiration is not ended. 
We have thus far lived in a twilight 
only. — often dim of that Morning Star 
— though shaded by our doubts. For 
practical uses to society, Its Sun must 
rise again with such burning glory on 
our globe as to consume the Snake in 
man, and his wrongs public or private, 
like Lightning when it tires the noxious 
vapor of black clouds from east to 
west, and makes of Night's own throne 
a torch, revealing The Truth to every 
eye. 

7 As however, many have been slaves 
so long as to be unconscious of their 
chaias to a throne of Darkness, and this 
free union of our wills under the Divine 
Spirit, can only work perfectly after 
the masses shall be well educated if any 
one, being fearful or unbelieving may 
wish to withdraw from a Hive, the right 
to do so will never be questioned, but 
no one shall ever be expelled permanent- 
ly, except by a three-fourths vote of 
all its members, nor from a special meet- 
ing for disorderly conduct, except by a 
two-thirds vote of that meeting. The 
poorer voters will be given front seats 
in this synagogue, because needing 
most instruction, and shall always be 
treated as true sovereigns equal in 
worth to the richest of earth's monarchs: 
for they are divine incarnations, and 
breathing temples of Eternal Life — our 
brother freemen — endowed with a legal 
right to crown the King of kings 
through true and* faithful representa- 
tives, bv their suffrage at the ballot-box; 
which is a sacred trust to be used with 
scrupulous care in every town, county 
and state, of our great city— the Feder- 
al Uniou if ever purthed by free, fair 
and full consent of its dominant major- 
ities. Moreover as blind servility to 
edicts of organized power, in relms of 
thought religious and political, has been 
the bane of past generations: and its op- 
posite, the independence of an enlight- 
ened Individualism must be the iris of 
future ages under the empire of one 



Divine mind, no binding nominations 
for office are to be made by any Hive or 
associated branches, tho' recommends 1 , 
or endorsements or calls may be, and' 
members will be encouraged to work 
for good material in other strictly par- 
tisan organizations, acording to prefer- } 
ence, if permitted without fetters, so, 
that in any event the best man shall 
rule by aid of our millstone which may 
4 'grind slowly but will grind exceeding 
fine." Mark well, that to control even 
active partisans morally, the proceed- 
ings of co-actors, and candidates too, 
must be moral; from the duty to review 
which critically, no body or 'thing- can 
absolve a voter, especially, if on the 
bench of last appeal— eitner as a ques- 
tion of rght or expediency. Of right, 
because np onp can delegate or,transfer 
his conscience to another. It is not as- 
signable. It is an inalienable, irre- 
pressible, attribute of souls; the prop- 
erty of God, and His tabernacle in Man: 
the Holy of Holies. Of expediency, be- 
cause, if nominations, even by over- 
whelming majority parties, cease every- 
where to mean a sure elect; on, our coun- 
try will be well ruled, peaceful, pros- 
perous and happy; as Snakes will not 
dare aspire to office, when a Son-Dial 
can barely stand such judgments of Fire 
—from our "Wine press" of Almightv 
Wrath, the Public Gonscience. This is 
a pivotal issue, the turning point for life 
or death in republics. It is exactly 
the essential difference, the gulf, be 
tween Hell's government and that of 
Heaven where "Dogs and Liars" are 
not only kept out of power, but ,, with- 
out the gates" of good society; while 
to "stand up" for our true brothers at 
all times, against the Serpant's spawn 
and hvpocrites, is a Divine Satute, of 
paramount force, obligatory on every 
citizen of the upper sphere, living or 
dead, in our clay forms of after their 
resurrection, here and hereafter. Al- 
legiance to God, -patriotism, the good of 
all parties and ourselves, alike requires 
this much of manly Independence -this 
free exercise of a clear conscience— as 
the balm of perpetual youth to men and 
nations, individually and collectively, 
under the "Iron Rod" of Right, or 



CONSTITUTION OF THE WORKMEN'S LEAGUE. 



Milky Way, whereby with flight of time, 
and pure schooling, corruption and 
pain must quit our globe — at least in 
'very child of His Spirit, that sweet 
Mother, the white Dove now here in 
myriad hearts, whose soft Wings star- 
ward woos the race, still pleading for 
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, "Oh! Jerusa- 
lem. '' though false and fallen. 

<s Vet as a rule, except only in cases} 
of well-known honesty, we will never 
vote for millionaires or any poor ape of 
their greed, notably such as fatten in 
office, not by salaries, but a betrayal of 
public trusts for the benefit of classes ; 
because whosoever covets more than a 
competence, save as trustee for charita- 
ble uses, is a slave to Self, through Pelf, 
and hence unlit to represent true free- 
men, or without a change of linen, to 
sup at table with the humblest citizen 
who may have our Father's Spirit for a 
guest. How much more unworthy then 
are such to sit on the judgement seats of 
a government built by Pure Reason 
from the Word of God, as a home of 
Liberty —a jaspar cube hewn square out 
of Truth's Mountain to banish Night, 
and sink all tyrant crowns of unholy 
Might, reared from Seas of Ignorance, 
— like a crystal city of the sky ablaze 
with Heaven's Fire, and brighter than 
burnished gold in noonday sun ; though 
dimmed for years by "dogs"' inside of ev- 
ery capitol, faithful to the Dragon only. 
Indeed to pass over the House of Con- 
gress, and each state, county and town 
organism, whose number is legion, a 
Federal Senate, meant lor council near- 
est Heaven, though lately next to Hell 
as the richest set of self-made lords on 
earth with its millions of plunder in 
possession, ami billions by proxy, is 
Alone enough to stir the very bones of 
our dead martyrs, slain for civil or re- 
ligious freedom, and lift their spirits 
from the grave, by waking the living to 
a new birth of unconquerable devotion. 
Be it known that most "fortunes' 1 are 
not earned in any way. They are sim- 
ply stolen, usually from a body politic 
by some creature — a Serpent, with a 
soul, if any, framed in Hell. For Bell 
also is no spot, but a slate of Servitude 
loeatable wherever the Snakish Self 



dominates ; or Error i. e. the wan 
Light, holds a mind in carnal chains. 
And, as rleaven with its Prince of Light 
is here partially now ; so is Hell with 
its Prince -of Darkness, at dual war in 
us for a 2d Life or 2d Death — our 
petual weal or woe, collectively n.ol 
than personally. Because all creations 
are ideal — a product of Mind— and Soul 
only is real, our Eternal Essence m 
dying, though clad in changeable forms 
or transitory types, fitting the Antitype 
of another Sphere, whither we gravitate 
at will. Moreover as our Woe. i.e. 
Death and Hell here in a middle state, 
began with the Dragon-in-man.Jor Mat- 
ter, Mammon and the Belly deified vol- 
untarily; so the God-in-man, our Spirit 
nature, or Mind alone can end- them, 
when we shall have sense enough to 
obey the Inward Monitor, who. although 
the same Person, is in one phase our 
Fattier, in another our Mother, and still 
another the Christ, An Oilspring 
of Both, according to the vest- 
ure worn. And this further implies 
that as every individual must, like our 
Model, be chiefly his own savior on 
earth, i. e. build up or deprave the In- 
ward Being; so" mankind, the human 
race, every nation and every state 
rising from Depravity mmt chief- 
ly build its own Throne of final 
Judgment, clean and white - that great 
Tribunal founded on a pure enlightened 
Conscience — before which the past, 
present and future generations are to 
pa>s in review. 'Wherefore it is not our 
dusty laborers on a virgin continent, 
whose posterity is already manacled 
for ages with corporate debts, but their 
robbers — the typical Dragon — who 
should be despised and forever hurled 
to a Pit of wrath, burning hot at each 
successive election, while Libert v shall 
live in America. Yet "he that is unjust, 
let him be unjust still, and he whie 
filthy, let him he filthy still; 11 and we 
ask none such to sign this Constitution, 
but those who L/ve an honesl Workmrn, 
in any walk hi Ji or low. and long for a 
resurrection of the poor in both mental 
spirits and physical com for s. are urged 
to organize a Bee Hive for pure honey. 
which can If found in everv srarden of 






INSTITUTION OJ THE WORKMEN'S U 



Truth, both religious and political, if 
Wisely knowing- Good from Evil, we 
elect the sweet, but shun a bitter bud. 
And when thought proper by a majority 
of this Hive a session may be held on 
any Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m.. or from 
3 to 5 p. m., to dust the Jasper House 
of our Sires, with a broom of Patriotism, 
holier than the bigot's zeal as giving 
daily bread to all the Masses, by sweep- 
ing out the greed of Classes, so that our 
rich will be brothers of the poor— do as 
they would be done by— like true child- 
ren of one Father. 

9 A thousand years between Spiritpow- 
ers in man at war. is as one day: and un- 
der a type of relapsing Faith, necessarily 
incident to the barbarous past, steeped 
in clouds yet ever yearning for the Sun 
our world has about rolled through its 
bullet rule; or seven forms of Beastly 
Dominion — a 2nd Captivity, wherein 
infidelity, idolatry, murder, lust, theft, 
lies and lucre, do still dishonor the 
the double Law of Sinai, the ten com- 
mandments, among "all kindreds and 
tongues. " So now reserved to us is 
the final onset of a nobler victory for 
Faith, in Megiddo\s Valley, by the peace- 
ful suffrage of Truth's millions. There 
first in our public heart— the Throne 
of Peace must rest: thence— in its pure 
and free voice— must How the crystal 
river whose fruit shall feed the nations: 
and there too is to be found at last that 
grand Commune of humanity in One, 
whose golden key will unlock the Scroll 
of Ages, for all who wish to write their 
names upon its pages. This does nor, 
imply any physical cataclysm, that the 
planet will be "burnt up 1 ' or destroyed 
by material fire; but man's world in 
every realm, will be beautified and bet- 
tered under (rod's quickening Spirit, 
"\V:io is a consuming Fire" to earthly 
(dements in us: for the scene of His cru- 
cifixion is to be the seat of His "honor 
and powers—the centre of universal 
Intelligence — and He can, have no spite 
against matter as such, yet does want our 
appreciative companionship. Here is Inv- 
olution and evolution is man's destiny, 
the inevitable result of real Freedom, the 
law of growth from a low to the higher 

Life, sublime though fore >rdained as 



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k of Faith, in a divine revel a- \ 
?,h every eye that wills can s< 
hough Cod, a Living Spirit. \ 



the effect of a cause, to-wit, the o 
First Cause; for our Liberty grows out of 
The Rock of Faith, in a divine revel 
tion which 
But althc 

accepted through Faith, by our intelli- 
gence, in fiesh and blood and bones, to. 
control human volitions, and make men 
and women true both to Himself and 
each other, is the concurrent Enuncia- 
tion not less of Observation than Reve- 
lation, and also a beautiful Reality now 
at length clear as the Rainbow after a 
storm, and free for our Inhalation as the 
air; this Reality is fraught with conse- 
quences so immense to the race, in op- 
position to avaricious despotisms every- 
where, that monopolistic minds, pre- 
dominating in every chi*rch, have nat- 
urally kept Its candle under a half bush- 
el, for merchandise, while drinking the 
blood of Christendom, like lords at 
Belshazzar's banquet. Therefore, in re- 
ligious as well as political, financial, com- 
mercial and social Circles, with the Dark- 
ness of four thousand years beneath 
us, and the Light of nineteen cen- 
turies shining down upon us, ma\\ 
we not at so late an hour command 
severe attention to that Hydra-headed- 
monster— this Devil-fish from the Deep, 
ever fattening on the death of men and 
nations— -the Spirit of Monopolv ? For 
Me ! Me ! Me ! My Interest.' The 
4k Ego"-istic Self : or Satan. Father 
of our Hell. See now, as we 
look over the whole range of vision, 
abroad and here in America even, he 
q 1 1 aft s on r Life, w itli a gold e n cu p, i n Blas- 
phemous mockery, and as a result, the 
Philistines are. swarming in our city ! 
Need we, who are Freemen, wait 
longer. idle and distract d by 
sect and party, for a Giant to help 
us; or will the people rise like Samp- 
son and east dc.wn that Power, and 
over its ruins rear The Temple of Love, 
in a just government of the faithful and 
true by our best men, to stand forever 
as the Ancient of Days -a Republic of 
the Almighty indeed ? Let no one 
pause for a reply, but relieeting that 
the booty of power is the only issue in 
controversy between Northern and 
Southern clans, Lot h now under control 



• I 1 II L \\ OKKMEN'S LEAGUE 



of Wall Street at the East,' while here 
is an everlasting issue of world-wide 
import, the character of a Kingdom to 
be chosen by us as free agents, let ev- 
ery man who is a man, act in unison 
with neighbors on this question — and 
act at once — decisively for the reign of 
Love. For You ! You ! You ! The 
Public Weal. The "Alter" -isti'c Self; 
or (rod. Father of our Heaven. Yet 
sure, O, Babylon, is thy fall, and thus 
violently, though "without hand," O, 
great and mighty city, shait thou be 
thrown down and be found no more at 
all." Burnt by Reason on Fire ! The 
Torch of Truth ! Indeed as the seed of 
Faith consumes its carnal soil to drink 
eternal Life, as the blind babe springs 
from its prison home to blink the light, 
as the acorn grows from mud, and a 
diamond from charcoal: so, near by, 
from the dying womb of Hades in 
Man's heart, already leaps upon her 
Solar Walk, amid celestial orbs, the 
New, the Golden Jerusalem, Humani- 
ty's most glorious Mansion, a Holy 
City, adorned with every jewel of the 
Moral Universe, to brighten hourly, un- 
til the Sun shall yield her his royal 
robe, till the Moon pales at her feet, the 
Stars of Heaven cluster on her brow, 
and Darkness is no more — that Peer- 
less Queen, the Bride Divine, and 
Creature of our reformation, having 
the good father, holy mother, and true 
child, or God-head in us, as the essence 
of Her glory, — a Trinitv ol Love but 
Unit of Action. 

10 However, as these views, even if 
hereafter admissible, of a religion united 
logically with politics — of a state mys- 
tically married to a church — of a Lion 
in subjection to The Lamb — in short of 
a bridal city, different only from the 
old Jerusalem, in that it must be built 
with Spirit aid by mankind for a oattle 
monument of the Divine victory over 
Evil, in flesh here on our earth as its 
chief end — meaning simply a govern- 
ment upheld by human wills, pure in 
every branch, like a diamond of first 
water, or iinest gold without alloy, are 
views novel to the public, and perhaps 
partly erroneous, the undersigned do 
not now commit ourselves to auv except 



the first sentence above. The rest we 
regard as patriotic ideals, and a plausi- 
ble plan of public organization for I 
ing their truth worthy of trial by the 
people, and extension, if found benefi- 
cial; which may be easily worked 
cording to taste, in any neighborhood, 
as it is simple and will cost little or 
nothing — beyond a cordial, earnest ef- 
fort for harmonious judgments under 
One Sovereign, u p o n o i i r b a s i s < > t U \ i - 
ion stated again, to-wit: 

The undersigned citizens, of a Repub- 
lic built for the general Weal if eon- 
trolled by the Good, or the general Woo 
if controlled by the Evil, and through 
Faith, hopefully so of another Govern- 
ment, which also calls upon us to up- 
hold the First, and reject the Last, con- 
sidering thai as freemen now, sover- 
eign in our proper spheres, we have in- 
dividually certain inalienable rights re- 
served within our parties, or sects, 
though perhaps a minority; and intend- 
ing as such freemen, while still faithful 
to our sound principles and their pure 
exponents, to follow each one his own 
conscience always; subject, however, in 
actions to enacted law, and to have that 
conscience dominated intelligently, as 
nearly as we can by our Heavenly Fa- 
ther, the Divine Spirit in every thing, 
especially our votes about ail public 
problems like prohibition, the currency, 
free trade, suffrage, taxation, transport- 
ation the just wage- of labor or capital, 
etc., etc., herebv unite to form a Work- 
men's League, and talk over the same, 
which shall be conducted under such 
officers and by-laws or rules, as we 
e 1 e e t — n o t f o r < 1 e b a t e o r d i s p 1 1 1 \ 
Truth seekers, led by that Spirit, to ad- 
vance His influence in all administ ra- 
tions of each commonwealth withii 

;i!it V 
with the 
ord : 



United States, and to enthrone 
above Mammon in politics, 
grace of Jesus Christ, our 



iiid God menus 



God means Lig 
and God means Liberty fo 
t \\u^, is here, ready to ace-' 
ion, from generation to 
when we are to be true sub 
Witness our hands, i ead 
hereto set al 
of . IK8- . 



n, and 
)omin- 
■ \ii ion, 

hearts 
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RULES FOR EXERCISES AND ORDER. Sec. I. 

1. When the presiding officer takes the chair, the officers and members shall 
take their respective seats, and at the sound of the gavel there shall be general 
silence. 

2. Prayer by the acting President. 

3. Roll-call of officers and members by a Scribe. 

4. The tilling of vacancies in orderly rotation by Seniorities present. 

5. The refilling of Junior posts thus emptied by nominations from the floor. 

6. The minutes of last regular and adjourned meetings b} r the acting Secre- 
tary — Correspondence, etc. 

7. Report of Board of Almoners. 

8. Report of Wage-workers. 

9. Report of Musicians and Music. 

10. Booking of new members. 

11. Miscellaneous and unfinished matters. 

12. Opening of the Hive by the Chair for discussion. 

But this routine may be varied or dispensed with at pleasure by a majority 
vote. 

Sec. ii. — 1. The President shall state ever\ r subject before the Hive for dis- 
cussion and call first upon the Counselors appointed to open its discussion, who 
shall conduct the same, without malice or buffoonery, by canons of Logic— the 
Rod of Truth from statistics and facts. 

2. 4i The presiding officer shall preserve order and decorum, and pronounce 
the decisions of the Hive on all subjects: he may speak to points of order in 
preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose; he shall 
decide questions of order without debate, unless entertaining doubts on the 
point, subject to an appeal to the Hive by any two members, on which appeal 
no member shall speak more than once, unless by permission of the Hive. 

3. In case of an appeal, the question shall be: 'Shall the decision of the 
Chair stand as the judgment of the Hive?' 

4. All appeals from the judgment o¥ decision of the Chair shall be reduced 
to writing and handed to the Chair. 

5. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if any member desires it. 

G. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the presiding 
officer, or, being in writing, it shall be handed to the Secretary, who shall arise 
and read it aloud before debate thereon. 

7. After a motion is made and stated by the presiding officei\ it shall be 
deemed to be in possession of the Hive, but may be withdrawn at any time be- 
fore the decision or amendment. 

8. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to ad- 
journ, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone indefinitely, to 
postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, which several motions shall 
have the precedence in the order the} T stand arranged. 

9. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except while a member is 
speakino, while the Chair is stating a question, or while a vote is being taken. 
A motion to adiourn, to lay on the table, and a previous question, shall be de- 
termined without debate. But the Hive shall never adjourn or be closed except 
in regular form. 

10. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consid- 
eration shall be admitted under color of amendment. 

11. When a motion has been once made, and carried in the affirmative or 
negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move the recon- 
sideration thereof, at the same or next meeting of the Hive. 

12. No member shall disturb another in his speech, unless to call him to or- 
der, or ask him a question for information, nor stand up to interrupt him, nor 



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when a member is speaking, pass between him and the Chair, or leave the Hive. 

13. Every member, when speaking shall confine himself to the question un- 
der debate, and avoid all personality or intolerant language, as well as any re- 
flection upon the Hive or its members. 

14. If two or more members rise to speak at the same time the Chair shall 
decide which is entitled to the floor, 

15. No member shall speak more than once on the same subject or question, 
until all the members wishing to speak shall have had an opportunity to do so, 
nor more than twice without permission of the Hive. 

16. No motion can be made by one member while another is speaking. 

17. The Chair, or any member doubting the decision of the question, may 
call for a division of the Hive, and a count of the affirmative and negative votes. 

18. All reports of committees shall be made in writing, except committees to 
receive visiting brothers. 

19. No more than two amendments to a proposition shall be entertained at 
the same time; that is, an amendment, and an amendment to an amendment, 
and the question shall be first taken on the latter. 

20. All points of order not herein provided for shall be decided in the discre- 
tion of the Hive according to the usages and customs of parliamentary law." 

Witness also our hands and seals hereto set at this day of 188 — 

(names.) 



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